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SingTel is launching NFC-based payments in Singapore in partnership with EZ-Link, who also introduced an EZ-Link NFC mobile application and the EZ-Link NFC website. Using the new service, SingTel customers will be able to make cashless payments by tapping supported handsets at NFC-enabled terminals at over 20,000 points of sale, including taxis, supermarkets and fast…

Microsoft launched Windows Phone yesterday with nine handsets and a launch plan that includes 30 wireless carriers worldwide. Now that the press event is over and we have had some hands-on time with all nine handsets, it is now time to wrap-up the event and combine all of our information together into one comprehensive post.…

Singapore’s SingTel has set up a corporate venture company called Innov8 to invest in new technologies and eventually create future growth engines for the group. The new entity will have an initial fund size of S$200 million, which is about US$150 million, and collaborate with innovators, developers, government agencies and R&D organisations around the region…

Singapore’s SingTel and Ericsson are trialing LTE network at SingTel’s headquarters, Comcentre. The carrier’s plan is to progressively upgrade its existing HSPA network over the next 12-24 months to be LTE-ready. Likewise, commercial deployment is slated to take place in phases, subject to the availability of frequency spectrum and commercial LTE mobile devices. Commenting on…

Singapore’s SingTel, which owns just under a third of Bharti Airtel, said it will support the Indian operator in its effort to acquire Zain’s African networks, excluding Morocco and Sudan. A senior SingTel executive told Reuters that the acquisition would be financed by debt (i.e. bond issuance), and there was no need to inject money…

The GSA (Global Suppliers Association) is reporting that over the past 8 months there has been a near 100% increase in the number of operators around the world committing to the LTE standard. There are now 51 network commitments in 24 countries, an increase of 96% over the past 8 months. Not all is rosy…

Singapore Telecommunications (SingTel) has recently announced that it is paying around $393 million to increase its stake in India’s Bharti Airtel to 31.95%, up from 30.43% currently. The company is buying the shares though its investment arm, Pastel. In the other SingTel news, the carrier is reportedly considering the sale of a minority stake in…

While Canadians sit and wait for some sort of official release announcement for the BlackBerry Curve 8520, other countries are getting the love. Case in point today is Singapore. RIM has announced today that the 8520 Curve will be available in Singapore via M1, SingTel and StarHub at the end of October. Specific launch dates…

So following the UK launch, here comes more INQ Mini 3G news: SingTel and INQ Mobile have announced that SingTel mobile customers will soon become the first in Asia and among the first in the world to get their hands on the new INQ Mini 3G. The Mini 3G is exclusive to SingTel customers in…

As expected, Singapore carrier SingTel and Australian Optus have both gone official with the HTC’s Android Device, taking on the name Dream. Who knows what happened with the G1 namesake, but Dream has a better ring to it anyway. Specs are the same, but to refresh your memory… 3.2-inch TFT-LCD flat touch-sensitive screen with HVGA…